Cooperative Agreement NNS07AA34A

This $999,664 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) supports the development of a novel framework for extracting spatio-temporal features from integrated remote sensing data to create a comprehensive knowledge base for monitoring and mapping flood events. The research aims to enable rapid response and recovery efforts by providing real-time communication between human and robot agents...

This Project Grant award for $104,811 was provided by the Air Force Research Laboratory through the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) for the project "HARVESTING PRECONDITIONING FOR SCALABLE HIGH-RESOLUTION SIGNAL AND IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION." The award supports cutting-edge research at CMU to maintain technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force, with a performance period from January 15, 2025 to September...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) provides $720,000 in funding to the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) to conduct research on using machine learning and deep learning algorithms for standoff detection of threat chemicals. The project aims to advance the computational techniques for distinguishing explosives and other illicit substances from benign background materials using infrared backscatter...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $108,855 Project Grant to Space Science And Technologies Jose Nilo Castellon EIRL located in Chile. The grant will fund the CONVOLVED SPECTRA FOR GEOSYNCHRONOUS SATELLITES CHARACTERIZATION project from November 2021 through November 2023. Under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), the grantee will analyze convoluted spectra to characterize geosynchronous satellites. The program aims to...

The U.S. Department of the Army awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to Universita' Degli Studi DI Siena, a non-profit educational institution in Italy, under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431). The funding supports research and analytical services focused on data analytics, media forensics, and semantic analysis. This includes developing verification systems and integrity analytics solutions for overhead imagery, such as the DISCOVER project in collaboration with Purdue University,...

Project Grant Summary Georgia TECH Research Corp received a $663,275 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2028. This research initiative develops novel visual perception, localization, mapping, and planning algorithms specifically designed for space robotics applications operating in the harsh orbital environment. The...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory (Air Force Research Laboratory) awarded $4.8 million to the University of California, Santa Barbara on September 30, 2025 under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to develop tunable non-reciprocal engineered superconductors (TUNES), a project combining fundamental physics research with device engineering and materials science to investigate non-reciprocal effects in superconducting structures and...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $304,580 Project Grant to Arizona State University under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant funded the TRUSTED DISTRIBUTED HUMAN-MACHINE TEAMING FOR SAFE AND EFFECTIVE SPACE-BASED MISSIONS project from February 1, 2021 through January 31, 2023. The project focused on developing technologies to maintain Air Force technological superiority and prevent technological surprise...

The National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded Massachusetts Institute of Technology $432,737 on July 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop large-scale pretraining approaches for earth observation foundation models using noisy geospatial labels. The project characterizes scaling laws for earth observation foundation models by studying how model performance varies with dataset size, model size, land...

The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees $321,578 on September 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop scalable, trustworthy, and privacy-preserving methods for cross-view geo-localization. The project will create large-scale datasets combining ground-level imagery, aerial imagery, satellite imagery, geographic information system...